Watterson Park, KY 40224 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Watterson Park, KY, ZIP 40224
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/03, about 218 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/03, about 214 frost-free days later.
Watterson Park sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7a around Watterson Park has about 10 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
Why 04/03 isn't a guarantee
04/03 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/18 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/19 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Watterson Park compares
At roughly 214 frost-free days, Watterson Park places 14,289 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KY, it ranks 41 of 909.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Watterson Park's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Watterson Park's dates instead of trusting one.